Tag Archives: Theft

A 45-year-old man was arrested in the theft of a bronze Jackie Robinson statue that was cut off at the ankles and found days later smoldering in a trash can in a city park in Kansas, police announced Tuesday. Ricky Alderete was taken into custody earlier this month in a kidnapping case and charged Monday with four counts stemming from …

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — California’s governor announced plans Thursday to send prosecutors to Oakland in his latest move to crack down on rising crime in the San Francisco Bay Area city where brazen robberies in broad daylight have drawn national attention. Gov. Gavin Newsom days earlier said he would deploy 120 California Highway Patrol officers to also help with targeted …